Anstandsbücher, Etiquette Books and Traités de Savoir-Vivre 1870–1930: Guides for Conduct as Political Media?

Anstandsbücher，礼仪书籍和特质 de Savoir-Vivre 1870â1930：作为政治媒体的行为指南？

• 批准号: 411769824
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Marc von Knorring
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Lehrstuhl für Neuere und Neueste Geschichte
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2017-12-31 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/411769824?language=en
• 关键词: Anstandsb; cher; Etiquette; Books; Trait

Etiquette books were a mass-phenomenon on the international book markets from 1870 to 1930. Since the 1970s, these publications have mainly been attended to by sociology, ethnology and literature studies, inquiring into their function for the development of social rules of conduct, classes and gender roles. Consequently certain strata, age and gender groups searching for guidance in times of social change have been identified as target audience of etiquette books, whose creators perceptively catered to the target audience’s needs. The political content of the genre, however, remained blanked out. In preliminary studies the applicant has followed this new approach. First results imply that etiquette books served ideologically, politically or confessionally defined groups (i. e. segments of political cultures) as a means to attain self-assurance and delineation by adopting and influencing their attitudes. The project aims to prove this hypothesis for the first time by conducting a fundamental study based on a long-term international perspective and analyzing a large amount of sources. Focussing on Germany, France and Great Britain, the formerly leading countries on the field of etiquette literature are subject of analysis. In doing so, the project’s aim is not just to ascertain the general characteristics and significance of this genre but to contribute to some newly emerging areas of historical research: the relation between media and segments of political cultures as well as the development and function of mass media in general. For this purpose 270 etiquette books are to be analysed, 30 publications from each of the three named countries in three editions respectively published between 1870 and 1930, as this period is highly significant with regard to political and social history as well. Moreover, as a sample research is planned in up to 30 publisher’s archives to determine the intentions of the creators of manner books and especially the reception by target audiences. Leading subjects of inquiry will be the dimension of political (in a broader sense statements in etiquette books, therefore supplying a code of practice for their readers and how the publications were received by audiences and book reviewers, how authors and publishers reacted to the feedback of their clientele as well as to its transformations. Further questions are whether etiquette books were more important for certain segments of political cultures than for others, whether they were of different importance in the focussed countries, and the underlying causes behind all this. The results of the three-year-project will be published as a monograph. These results are also supposed as a foundation for further studies on the settings of supply and demand, on possible transnational interconnections of the authors of etiquette books, the mutual relation of media and social processes as well as similarities and differences of political cultures in a global perspective.

从1870年到1930年，礼仪书籍在国际图书市场上是一种大众现象。自20世纪70年代以来，这些出版物主要受到社会学、民族学和文学研究的关注，探讨它们对社会行为规则、阶层发展的功能。审查了在社会变革时期寻求指导的某些阶层、年龄和性别群体已被确定为礼仪书籍的目标受众，其创作者敏锐地迎合了目标群体。然而，在初步研究中，申请人遵循了这种新方法，该类型的政治内容仍然被忽略。初步结果表明，礼仪书籍服务于意识形态、政治或信仰上定义的群体（即政治文化的一部分）。意味着通过采用和影响他们的态度来获得自信和界定。该项目旨在通过基于长期国际视角和分析大量资料来首次证明这一假设。 ， 法国英国是礼仪文献领域以前的领先国家，该项目的目的不仅仅是确定这一流派的一般特征和意义，而且为一些新兴的历史研究领域做出贡献。 ：媒体与政治文化部分之间的关​​系以及大众媒体的总体发展和功能 为此目的，将分析 270 本礼仪书籍，以及来自三个指定国家的 30 种出版物，分别出版了三个版本。 1870 年和 1930 年，因为这一时期在政治和社会历史方面也非常重要，此外，计划对多达 30 个出版商的档案进行样本研究，以确定礼仪书籍创作者的意图，尤其是目标群体的接受程度。调查的主要主题将是政治维度（从更广泛的意义上讲，礼仪书籍中的陈述，因此为读者提供了实践准则，以及读者和书评家如何接受出版物，作者和出版商如何接受）进一步的问题是礼仪书籍对于某些政治文化部分是否比其他部分更重要，它们在重点国家中是否具有不同的重要性，以及所有这些背后的根本原因。这个为期三年的项目的结果将作为专着出版，这些结果也被认为是进一步研究礼仪书籍作者之间可能的跨国联系的基础。媒体与社会过程的关系以及全球视野下政治文化的异同。